闌

See also: 阑

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): 門 (“door”) + 柬

Han character

闌 (radical 169 門+9, 17 strokes, cangjie input 日弓木田火 (ANDWF), four-corner 7790₆, composition ⿵門柬)

1. door screen
2. railing fence

Derived characters

• 瀾, 蘭, 攔, 欄, 爛, 讕, 籣, 𨷻

References

• KangXi: page 1339, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41433
• Dae Jaweon: page 1844, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4307, character 11
• Unihan data for U+95CC

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Chinese

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trad.		闌
simp.		阑

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lán, làn (lan², lan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄢˊ, ㄌㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): laan⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: lán
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄢˊ
    • Wade-Giles: lan²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lan
    • IPA ^(key): /la̠n³⁵/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: làn
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄢˋ
    • Wade-Giles: lan⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lann
    • IPA ^(key): /la̠n⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: laan⁴
    • Yale: làahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: laan⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /lɑːn²¹/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (闌, reconstructed)
Character (闌), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 來 (37) Final: 寒 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 落干切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/lɑn/	/lɑn/	/lɑn/	/lɑn/	/lan/	/lɑn/	/lɑn/

Old Chinese pronunciation (闌, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
闌								lán								‹ lan ›								/*[r]ˤan/								railing
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
闌					6124					柬					元					1					蘭					/*ɡ·raːn/

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Japanese

Kanji

闌

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: らん (ran)
• Kun: てすり (tesuri), さえぎる (saegiru), たけなわ (takenawa)

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Korean

Hanja

闌 (ran>nan) (hangeul 란>난, revised ran>nan, McCune-Reischauer ran>nan, Yale lan>nan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

闌 (lan, làn)

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